The 2024 year-end wrapup

I’m somewhat “meh” about 2024. I can’t say that there was a lot of amazing stuff that happened in my life this year. If anything, it seemed like there were a lot of hills to climb and scrambling to get … Continue reading →

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Jan 01, 2025
Back to the bead board!

Well, I’m back after cataract surgery and some other stuff I was dealing with. I didn’t expect my first craft work after surgery to be beading. I’d pretty much given up on that craft, simply because I couldn’t find a … Continue reading →

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Dec 20, 2024
Announcing a new change

Well. My current mood somewhat matches the cat's expression in this picture, and maybe a little bit of Marker's expression as well.(The cat's name is Goofy. Goofy likes to parade back and forth on the hitching rail for pets while I grain and groom Mo...

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Dec 08, 2024
Regrouping into Goddess's Vision...trying again

First of all, welcome to the new subscribers from the Liminal Fiction ebook list! I send this newsletter out once a month, sometime around the end of the month/first part of the next month. This newsletter is late in part because of...events, in part...

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Nov 09, 2024
4H, County Fairs, and Becoming Solo

Becoming Solo is one of my favorite little works because it’s rooted so strongly in my past experiences. No, I wasn’t part of a family spell matrix, nor did I undergo the sort of family dynamics that my character Yesenia … Continue reading →

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Oct 12, 2024
So it's October and my birthday month

Hi everyone! The newsletter is running a bit late this time because, well...three trips for routine medical stuff over three weeks. One of those trips wasn't routine because I finally am getting my second cataract dealt with, except for the actual sc...

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Oct 05, 2024
Horses going into fall

I’ve been really satisfied with how things are going with the horses as we move into fall. Mocha is holding her weight nicely, and now that she gobbles up her supplement she’s starting to get a little shine on her … Continue reading →

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Oct 01, 2024
The nonspeculative roots of my speculative fiction

This rant got set off by a thread from Xitter, whereupon a person in an English lit grad program was openly mocked by a prof for their dislike of a particular white male author in the sainted canon. Publicly. And … Continue reading →

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Sep 23, 2024
Sliding into fall

It seems as if fall just sneaks up on me over the past few years. Once, it meant back to school, first as student, then parent, then teacher. But it always seemed as if those first few weeks were hot … Continue reading →

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Sep 20, 2024
Summer training thoughts

I guess you could title these two photos as what a difference a year makes. In the first photo, I had no idea that I was working with a gaited horse. I just knew I had an unknown horse of … Continue reading →

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Sep 11, 2024
Dancing with writer burnout

Burnout. That’s something we all dance with as writers. I hit the wall late last fall and didn’t work my way past burnout until just recently. Oh, I could keep writing on the work-in-progress, though it felt like a slog … Continue reading →

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Sep 06, 2024
Happy fall...I think!

Yep, I got the trilogy finished and uploaded. Due to a glitch on the part of me, the publishing schedule is all out of whack. Instead of scheduling Crucible for prerelease on September 10th as originally planned, I released it on Draft2Digital and pu...

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Sep 03, 2024